Allegorically speaking, we all have an internal compass. When God originally designed Adam, He set the compass on “North,” pointing to Himself. We could say the compass kept Adam heavenly-minded or God-centered. After Adam sinned, the compass was reset to “South,” earth bound and self-centered. In my experience, that seems to be the “default” setting!
Every night while I sleep, my compass seems to reset itself to this default position. I awake to find my compass needle pointing “south.”
This expression "gone south" is used to define failure. Afer the Civil War, the term gone south was coined, meaning anything from the South was a failure. In recent contemporary use, the sluggish economy is described as going south.
If you have any of your self-life left at all, your compass needs to be reset each morning, to the “North,” heavenly-minded and God-directed. I wonder if this is what Paul meant when he said: Set your mind [compass] on things above, not on the things on earth (Colossians 3:2).
When you awoke this morning, in what direction was the needle on your internal compass set?
Did you reset it?
Greg,
ReplyDeleteWaht about the resetting of the "default" setting? Is that not a possibility in this life?
Stan
I am using the default to mean the flesh, to which we must "die daily" or, in my blog language todaay, reset the needle!
ReplyDeleteRegarding the "old self", yes, the power of that default is gone... only so much doctrine can be expressed in a limited blog posting!